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Championnat du Monde des U23 : les inscriptions

By Eric Olanowski & Vinay Siwach

PONTEVEDRA, Espagne (le 6 octobre) -- Il est l'heure du dernier championnat du monde de l'année, celui des U23, qui se déroulera à Pontevedra, ville côtière de l'est de l'Espagne du 17 au 23 octobre prochain.

Le niveau senior compte en tout 15 championnats du monde.

Comme d'habitude, le Japon envoie une délégation féminine de premier rang, avec à sa tête la championne olympique et championne du monde Yui SUSAKI (JPN), avec les jeunes et stupéfiantes Akari FUJINAMI (JPN), Nonoka OZAKI (JPN) et Miwa MORIKAWA (JPN).

Amit ELOR (USA), récemment couronnée championne du monde à Belgrade, sera sur les rangs pour son troisième titre mondial de l'année après celui des U20 et le senior.

En lutte gréco-romaine, l'ancien champion du monde Malkhas AMOYAN (ARM) mènera son pays, l'Arménie, après une médaille de bronze obtenue à Belgrade.

L'Iran est emmenée par le champion du monde 2021 des 130kg Aliakbar YOUSOFI (IRI). L'équipe compte également Poya DAD MARZ (IRI), Seyed SOHRABI (IRI) et Mohammad Reza MOKHTARI (IRI) entre autres.

L'iran espère réinsuffler un peu de fierté dans ses rangs après un championnat du monde désastreux, conclu sans médaille d'or.

La compétition de lutte libre verra s'affrontera les puissantes équipes des Etats-Unis, de l'Iran, de l'Arménie, du Kazakhstan et de l'Azerbaïdjan.

Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM)Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM) défendra son titre des 61kg (Photo : UWW / Martin Gabor)

Lutte libre

57kg
Tadeu De DEUS (ANG)
Manvel KHNDZRTSYAN (ARM)
Tofig ALIYEV (AZE)
Logan SLOAN (CAN)
Diego ZULUAGA CUEVAS (COL)
Adrian LOPEZ GOMEZ (ESP)
Diamantino IUNA FAFE (GBS)
Giorgi GEGELASHVILI (GEO)
Horst LEHR (GER)
Aman SEHRAWAT (IND)
Ahmad MOHAMMADNEZHADJAVAN (IRI)
Toshiya ABE (JPN)
Daulet TEMIRZHANOV (KAZ)
Bekzat ALMAZ UULU (KGZ)
Demian LIUTCANOV (MDA)
Munkh BATKHUYAG (MGL)
Rodrigo GANEGODAGE (SRI)
Thomas EPP (SUI)
Ahmet DUMAN (TUR)
Kamil KERYMOV (UKR)
Vitali ARUJAU (USA)

61kg
Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM)
Intigam VALIZADA (AZE)
Stilyan ILIEV (BUL)
Jason LUNEAU (CAN)
Elkin ESPANA SANTA (COL)
Yousef EISSA (EGY)
Adam BIBOULATOV (FRA)
Ramaz TURMANIDZE (GEO)
Nico MEGERLE (GER)
Akash DAHIYA (IND)
Armin HABIBZADEH (IRI)
Kodai OGAWA (JPN)
Assyl AITAKYN (KAZ)
Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)
Joseph SILVA (PUR)
Matheesha SAMARADIVAKARA (SRI)
Nils LEUTERT (SUI)
Emrah ORMANOGLU (TUR)
Andrii DZHELEP (UKR)
Aaron NAGAO (USA)

65kg
Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM)
Ayub MUSAEV (BEL)
Ivan BADAVROV (BUL)
Daniel COLES (CAN)
Felipe FERRUSOLA MILLA (ESP)
Said HOSSEINI (FIN)
Khamzat ARSAMERZOUEV (FRA)
Ross CONNELLY (GBR)
Gia UGRELIDZE (GEO)
Leon GERSTENBERGER (GER)
Gamzatgadzsi HALIDOV (HUN)
Anuj KUMAR (IND)
Kian MAHMOUD (IRI)
Kaiki YAMAGUCHI (JPN)
Adlan ASKAROV (KAZ)
Ikromzhon KHADZHIMURODOV (KGZ)
Leomid COLESNIC (MDA)
Ganbayar NAMSRAI (MGL)
Samuel ALVAREZ (PUR)
Gunawardana KANKANAMLAGE (SRI)
Dominik LARITZ (SUI)
Gurbanmuhammet CHARYYEV (TKM)
Cavit ACAR (TUR)
Erik ARUSHANIAN (UKR)
John DIAKOMIHALIS (USA)
Aseel AL MAKTARI (YEM)

70kg
Arman ANDREASYAN (ARM)
Kanan HEYBATOV (AZE)
Muhammad ABDURACHMANOV (BEL)
Emmanuel OLAPADE (CAN)
Jorge GATICA HINRICKSEN (CHI)
Ramon GERSAK PEREZ (ESP)
Marwane YEZZA (FRA)
Giorgi ELBAKIDZE (GEO)
Shamil USTAEV (GER)
Parvinder NAIN (IND)
Amirmohammad YAZDANI (IRI)
Aliakbar FAZLIKHALILI (IRI)
Gianluca COLETTI (ITA)
Kota TAKAHASHI (JPN)
Syrbaz TALGAT (KAZ)
Orozobek TOKTOMAMBETOV (KGZ)
Nicolai GRAHMEZ (MDA)
Tugsjargal ERDENEBAT (MGL)
Stefan COMAN (ROU)
Waththa WADUGE (SRI)
Tobias PORTMANN (SUI)
Hojamuhammed IBRAGIMOV (TKM)
Omer CAYIR (TUR)
Ihor NYKYFORUK (UKR)
Yahya THOMAS (USA)
Saddam ALHADA (YEM)

74kg
Hrayr ALIKHANYAN (ARM)
Simon MARCHL (AUT)
Khadzhimurad GADZHIYEV (AZE)
Dimitar ANGELOV (BUL)
Patrik LEDER (CAN)
Jhoan SERNA RODRIGUEZ (COL)
Mohamed EL KARCHOUCH (ESP)
Temuri BERUASHVILI (GEO)
Richard SCHROEDER (GER)
Christos CHRISTOFORIDIS (GRE)
Sagar JAGLAN (IND)
Mohmmadsadegh FIROUZPOUR (IRI)
Raul ZARBALIEV (ISR)
Luca FINIZIO (ITA)
Yuto FUKADA (JPN)
Yerkhan BEXULTANOV (KAZ)
Alinur TAKIROV (KGZ)
Vasile DIACON (MDA)
Diego SANDOVAL (MEX)
Temuujin MENDBILEG (MGL)
Jean STE MARIE (MRI)
Szymon WOJTKOWSKI (POL)
Sonny SANTIAGO (PUR)
Krisztian BIRO (ROU)
Palamure PALAMURE ARACHCHILAGE (SRI)
Atamyrat CHARLYYEV (TKM)
Ismet CIFTCI (TUR)
Vadym KURYLENKO (UKR)
David CARR (USA)

79kg
Arman AVAGYAN (ARM)
Ashraf ASHIROV (AZE)
Oktay HASAN (BUL)
Adam THOMSON (CAN)
Gabriel IGLESIAS (ESP)
Erik REINBOK (EST)
Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE (GEO)
Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE)
Zsombor NAGY (HUN)
CHANDERMOHAN (IND)
Sobhan YARI (IRI)
Ilan BONDAR (ISR)
Kosuke YAMAKURA (JPN)
Daulet YERGESH (KAZ)
Mukhammad ABDULLAEV (KGZ)
Stanislav NOVAC (MDA)
Miguel ORNELAS (MEX)
Ernest DOROSZ (POL)
Tony NEGRON (PUR)
Divan ILANDARI PEDIGE (SRI)
Tanguy DARBELLAY (SUI)
Soltan BEGENJOV (TKM)
Abdulvasi BALTA (TUR)
Valentyn BABII (UKR)
Carter STAROCCI (USA)

86kg
Knyaz IBOYAN (ARM)
Benjamin GREIL (AUT)
Abubakr ABAKAROV (AZE)
Hunter LEE (CAN)
Jaime GARCIA (ESP)
Rakhim MAGAMADOV (FRA)
Evsem SHVELIDZE (GEO)
Lars SCHAEFLE (GER)
Angelos KOUKLARIS (GRE)
Cesar UBICO ESTRADA (GUA)
Jointy KUMAR (IND)
Sajjad GHOLAMI (IRI)
Chengiz SOLTANOV SOLTANLI (ISR)
Mattia NASELLO (ITA)
Tatsuya SHIRAI (JPN)
Maksat SATYBALDY (KAZ)
Nurtilek KARYPBAEV (KGZ)
Ivars SAMUSONOKS (LAT)
Ivan ICHIZLI (MDA)
Cezary SADOWSKI (POL)
Jairo RIVERA (PUR)
Edward LESSING (RSA)
Emre CIFTCI (TUR)
Mukhammed ALIIEV (UKR)
Trent HIDLAY (USA)
Steven RODRIGUEZ (VEN)

92kg
Sergey SARGSYAN (ARM)
Ilia HRISTOV (BUL)
Tejvir BOAL (CAN)
Aimar ALZON (ESP)
Adlan VISKHANOV (FRA)
Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO)
Johannes MAYER (GER)
Gkivi BLIATZE (GRE)
Krisztian ANGYAL (HUN)
Parveen KUMAR (IND)
Amirhossein FIROUZPOUR (IRI)
Hikaru ABE (JPN)
Rizabek AITMUKHAN (KAZ)
Baisal KUBATOV (KGZ)
Osmans DZASEZEVS (LAT)
Ion DEMIAN (MDA)
Machiel GROBLER (RSA)
Palliya GURUNNANSELAGE DON (SRI)
Feyzullah AKTURK (TUR)
Denys SAHALIUK (UKR)
Jacob CARDENAS (USA)

97kg
Hovhannes MAGHAKYAN (ARM)
Thomas BARNS (AUS)
Islam ILYASOV (AZE)
Callum KNOX (CAN)
Riveri MTSITURI (GEO)
Ertugrul AGCA (GER)
Richard VEGH (HUN)
Sahil AHLAWAT (IND)
Amirali AZARPIRA (IRI)
Hibiki ITO (JPN)
Yunus GAFUROV (KAZ)
Radu LEFTER (MDA)
Nicolaas DE LANGE (RSA)
Shatlyk HEMELYAYEV (TKM)
Mucahit CELIK (TUR)
Vasyl SOVA (UKR)
Tanner SLOAN (USA)

125kg
Vakhit GALAYEV (AZE)
Georgi IVANOV (BUL)
Jackson SERNA (CAN)
Carlos ACEBRON (ESP)
Solomon MANASHVILI (GEO)
Azamat KHOSONOV (GRE)
Milan KORCSOG (HUN)
Anirudh KUMAR (IND)
Amirreza MASOUMI (IRI)
Lior ALTSHULER (ISR)
Kai SHUTTO (JPN)
Alisher YERGALI (KAZ)
Zyyamuhammet SAPAROV (TKM)
Adil MISIRCI (TUR)
Yurii IDZINSKYI (UKR)
Anthony CASSIOPPI (USA)

Aliakbar YOUSOFI (IRI)Aliakbar YOUSOFI (IRI), champion du monde en 2021, mène l'équipe iranienne de lutte gréco-romaine (Photo : UWW / Martin Gabor)

Lutte gréco-romaine

55kg
Nihad GULUZADE (AZE)
James CASTANO (ESP)
Giorgi TOKHADZE (GEO)
Ilias ZAIRAKIS (GRE)
LALIT (IND)
Poya DAD MARZ (IRI)
Ken MATSUI (JPN)
Nurzat KABDYRAKHIMOV (KAZ)
Taalaibek BEISHENBEK UULU (KGZ)
Artiom DELEANU (MDA)
Denis MIHAI (ROU)
Abduvali RAHIMBAYEV (TKM)
Ahmet TASKINOGLU (TUR)
Mykola HAVRYCHKIN (UKR)
Camden RUSSELL (USA)

60kg
Tigran MINASYAN (ARM)
Nihat MAMMADLI (AZE)
Borislav KIRILOV (BUL)
Ronaldo SANCHEZ (COL)
Aser EBRO (ESP)
Irakli DZIMISTARISHVILI (GEO)
Georgios SCARPELLO (GER)
Sumit DALAL (IND)
Omid ARAMI (IRI)
Melkamu FETENE (ISR)
Kaito INABA (JPN)
Olzhas SULTAN (KAZ)
Nurmukhammet ABDULLAEV (KGZ)
Vitalie ERIOMENCO (MDA)
Romio GOLIATH (NAM)
Grzegorz KUNKEL (POL)
Arslanbek ZAKIRBAYEV (TKM)
Jui HUANG (TPE)
Kerem KAMAL (TUR)
Vladyslav KUZKO (UKR)
Phillip MOOMEY (USA)

63kg
Hrachya POGHOSYAN (ARM)
Ziya BABASHOV (AZE)
Ilia MUSTAKOV (BUL)
Ahmed BAGHDOUDA (EGY)
Andy JUAN (ESP)
Tino OJALA (FIN)
Giorgi SHOTADZE (GEO)
Krisztian KECSKEMETI (HUN)
VINAY (IND)
Iman Khoon MOHAMMADI (IRI)
Abere FETENE (ISR)
Andrea SETTI (ITA)
Ryuto IKEDA (JPN)
Yerzhet ZHARLYKASSYN (KAZ)
Ermek KANYBEK UULU (KGZ)
Azatjan ACHILOV (TKM)
Mustafa YILDIRIM (TUR)
Maksym LIU (UKR)
Mason CARZINO HARTSHORN (USA)
Yonaiker MARTINEZ (VEN)

67kg
Sahak HOVHANNISYAN (ARM)
Ivo ILIEV (BUL)
Julian HORTA (COL)
Elmer MATTILA (FIN)
Gagik SNJOYAN (FRA)
Diego CHKHIKVADZE (GEO)
Krisztian VANCZA (HUN)
ASHU (IND)
Seyed SOHRABI (IRI)
Kyotaro SOGABE (JPN)
Almatbek AMANBEK (KAZ)
Amanat SAMAT UULU (KGZ)
Vilius SAVICKAS (LTU)
Alexei HAHLOVSCHI (MDA)
Haavard JOERGENSEN (NOR)
Aleksander MIELEWCZYK (POL)
Niklas OEHLEN (SWE)
Begmyrat NOBATOV (TKM)
Ramazan AKTAS (TUR)
Dmytro MIROSHNYK (UKR)
Peyton OMANIA (USA)

72kg
Shant KHACHATRYAN (ARM)
Gurban GURBANOV (AZE)
Pavel PUKLAVEC (CRO)
Marcos SANCHEZ (ESP)
Randel UIBO (EST)
Giorgi CHKHIKVADZE (GEO)
Samuel BELLSCHEIDT (GER)
Jose VARELA (GUA)
VIKAS (IND)
Amir ABDI (IRI)
Daigo KOBAYASHI (JPN)
Yerassyl NURBOSSYNOV (KAZ)
Adilkhan NURLANBEKOV (KGZ)
Eimantas VILIMAS (LTU)
Valentin PETIC (MDA)
Edsson OLMOS (MEX)
Kamil CZARNECKI (POL)
Miru OLSSON (SWE)
Muhammetnazar JUMAYEV (TKM)
Omer DOGAN (TUR)
Irfan MIRZOIEV (UKR)
Benjamin PEAK (USA)

77kg
Malkhas AMOYAN (ARM)
Emad ABOUELATTA (EGY)
Junior BENITEZ (ESP)
Edvin KIN (EST)
Akseli YLI HANNUKSELA (FIN)
Davit SOLOGASHVILI (GEO)
Idris IBAEV (GER)
Attila TOESMAGI (HUN)
Sajan BHANWALA (IND)
Mohammad Reza MOKHTARI (IRI)
David ZHYTOMYRSKY (ISR)
Nao KUSAKA (JPN)
Rassul ZHUNIS (KAZ)
Akylbek TALANTBEKOV (KGZ)
Aistis LIAUGMINAS (LTU)
Alexandrin GUTU (MDA)
Emmanuel BENITEZ (MEX)
Patryk BEDNARZ (POL)
Aleksa ILIC (SRB)
Lamjed MAAFI (TUN)
Abdurrahman KALKAN (TUR)
Dmytro VASETSKYI (UKR)
Britton HOLMES (USA)
Daniel BELLO (VEN)

82kg
Jones MABUNGU (ANG)
Gagik HAKOBYAN (ARM)
Ivaylo IVANOV (BUL)
Karlo KODRIC (CRO)
Jose ESTEVEZ (ESP)
Ranet KALJOLA (EST)
Jonni SARKKINEN (FIN)
Beka GURULI (GEO)
Erik LOESER (GER)
Ilias PAGKALIDIS (GRE)
Peter DOEMOEK (HUN)
Rohit DAHIYA (IND)
Alireza MOHMADIPIANI (IRI)
Tesshin HIGUCHI (JPN)
Temirkhan BAIGANIN (KAZ)
Beksultan NAZARBAEV (KGZ)
Semion BREKKELI (MDA)
Exauce MUKUBU (NOR)
Adam GARDZIOLA (POL)
Mats AHLGREN (SWE)
Toyly ORAZOV (TKM)
Ali HUNC (TUR)
Madamin MIRZOIEV (UKR)
Tyler CUNNINGHAM (USA)

87kg
Gevorg TADEVOSYAN (ARM)
Lachin VALIYEV (AZE)
Zahari ZASHEV (BUL)
Filip SMETKO (CRO)
Andreas VAELIS (EST)
Beka MELELASHVILI (GEO)
Nikolaos IOSIFIDIS (GRE)
Istvan TAKACS (HUN)
Sunil KUMAR (IND)
Abolfazl CHOUBANI (IRI)
Satoki MUKAI (JPN)
Maksat SAILAU (KAZ)
Azat SALIDINOV (KGZ)
Erick BARROSO (MEX)
Marcel STERKENBURG (NED)
Szymon SZYMONOWICZ (POL)
Christian ZEMP (SUI)
Muhittin SARICICEK (TUR)
Vitalii ANDRIIOVYCH (UKR)
Michial FOY (USA)

97kg
Hayk KHLOYAN (ARM)
Markus RAGGINGER (AUT)
Igor ALVES (BRA)
Sami SAMRA (EGY)
Jose FERRANDIZ (ESP)
Richard KARELSON (EST)
Loic SAMEN (FRA)
Giorgi KATSANASHVILI (GEO)
Anton VIEWEG (GER)
Apostolos TSIOVOLOS (GRE)
Alex SZOKE (HUN)
NITESH (IND)
Ali ABEDIDARZI (IRI)
Yuri NAKAZATO (JPN)
Islam UMAYEV (KAZ)
Mindaugas VENCKAITIS (LTU)
Tyrone STERKENBURG (NED)
Ionut GOSA (ROU)
Luka KATIC (SRB)
Aybegshazada KURRAYEV (TKM)
Mustafa OLGUN (TUR)
Valentyn SHKLIARENKO (UKR)
Nicholas BOYKIN (USA)

130kg
Sarkhan MAMMADOV (AZE)
Marcel ALBINI (CZE)
Geronimo CAMARA (ESP)
Giorgi TSOPURASHVILI (GEO)
Nikolaos NTOUNIAS (GRE)
Dariusz VITEK (HUN)
PARVESH (IND)
Aliakbar YOUSOFI (IRI)
Marin NISHIMURA (JPN)
Damir ZUPAROV (KAZ)
Paul MORALES (MEX)
Tomasz WAWRZYNCZYK (POL)
Jonovan SMITH (PUR)
Fatih BOZKURT (TUR)
Mykhailo VYSHNYVETSKYI (UKR)
Cohlton SCHULTZ (USA)

Yui SUSAKI (JPN)Yui SUSAKI (JPN) prendra part à son premier championnat du monde des U23 (Photo : UWW / Kostadin Andonov)

Lutte féminine

50kg
Shahana NAZAROVA (AZE)
Samantha ROMANO (CAN)
Nada MOHAMED (EGY)
Maria CAZALLA (ESP)
Emma LUTTENAUER (FRA)
Lisa ERSEL (GER)
Szimonetta SZEKER (HUN)
Ankush PANGHAL (IND)
Emanuela LIUZZI (ITA)
Yui SUSAKI (JPN)
Maral TANGIRBERGENOVA (KAZ)
Jekaterina JERMALONOKA (LAT)
Maria LEORDA (MDA)
Munkhgerel MUNKHBAT (MGL)
Christianah OGUNSANYA (NGR)
Amanda TOMCZYK (POL)
Stefania PRICEPUTU (ROU)
Svenja JUNGO (SUI)
Yung LIN (TPE)
Sarra HAMDI (TUN)
Zehra DEMIRHAN (TUR)
Aida KERYMOVA (UKR)
Nyla VALENCIA (USA)

53kg
Gultakin SHIRINOVA (AZE)
Taylor MCPHERSON (CAN)
Javiera ORTEGA (CHI)
Lucia YEPEZ (ECU)
Carla JAUME (ESP)
Anastasia BLAYVAS (GER)
Aikaterini VEKRI (GRE)
Antim PANGHAL (IND)
Akari FUJINAMI (JPN)
Ellada MAKHYADDINOVA (KAZ)
Mariana DRAGUTAN (MDA)
Sandra ESCAMILLA (MEX)
Beatrice FERENT (ROU)
Keshani MADURAVALAGE (SRI)
Meng HSIEH (TPE)
Zeynep YETGIL (TUR)
Liliia MALANCHUK (UKR)
Felicity TAYLOR (USA)
Mariana ROJAS (VEN)

55kg
Elnura MAMMADOVA (AZE)
Virginie KAZE GASCON (CAN)
Tatiana HURTADO (COL)
Laura GOMEZ (ESP)
Erika BOGNAR (HUN)
AARTI (IND)
Moe KIYOOKA (JPN)
Zeinep BAYANOVA (KAZ)
Mihaela SAMOIL (MDA)
Otgontuya BAYANMUNKH (MGL)
Mercy ADEKUOROYE (NGR)
Andreea ANA (ROU)
Fernando PORUTHOTAGE (SRI)
Elvira KAMALOGLU (TUR)
Oleksandra KHOMENETS (UKR)
Alisha HOWK (USA)

57kg
Sezen BELBEROVA (BUL)
Kirti SAXENA (CAN)
Maria BAEZ (ESP)
Celeste SION (FRA)
Tamara DOLLAK (HUN)
SITO (IND)
Sae NANJO (JPN)
Laura ALMAGANBETOVA (KAZ)
Grecia BERNAL (MEX)
Esther KOLAWOLE (NGR)
Othelie HOEIE (NOR)
Patrycja GIL (POL)
Georgiana LIRCA (ROU)
Siwar BOUSETA (TUN)
Melda DERNEKCI (TUR)
Alina HRUSHYNA (UKR)
Alexandra HEDRICK (USA)

59kg
Welvina VEMBA (ANG)
Zhala ALIYEVA (AZE)
Fatme SHABAN (BUL)
Katherine RENTERIA (COL)
Maria RAMOS (ESP)
Gaelle RUIZ (FRA)
Anne NUERNBERGER (GER)
Nikolett SZABO (HUN)
Mansi AHLAWAT (IND)
Himeka TOKUHARA (JPN)
Diana KAYUMOVA (KAZ)
Ramina MAMEDOVA (LAT)
Ameyalli JESSEL (MEX)
Magdalena GLODEK (POL)
Karoline ORTIZ (PUR)
Ana PUIU (ROU)
Evelina HULTHEN (SWE)
Ebru DAGBASI (TUR)
Solomiia VYNNYK (UKR)
Lexie BASHAM (USA)

62kg
Birgul SOLTANOVA (AZE)
Ana GODINEZ (CAN)
Iva GERIC (CRO)
Viktoria VESSO (EST)
Ameline DOUARRE (FRA)
Kelsey BARNES (GBR)
Anna SZEL (HUN)
SHAFALI (IND)
Nonoka OZAKI (JPN)
Irina KUZNETSOVA (KAZ)
Paulina DANISZ (POL)
Anna FABIAN (SRB)
Hsin PAI (TPE)
Yagmur CAKMAK (TUR)
Iryna BONDAR (UKR)
Alexandria LILES (USA)
Astrid MONTERO (VEN)

65kg
Nigar MIRZAZADA (AZE)
Aleah NICKEL (CAN)
Nerea PAMPIN (ESP)
Iris THIEBAUX (FRA)
BHATERI (IND)
Elena ESPOSITO (ITA)
Miwa MORIKAWA (JPN)
Dariga ABEN (KAZ)
Asli DEMIR (TUR)
Kateryna ZELENYKH (UKR)
Emma BRUNTIL (USA)

68kg
Meiriele CHARAMBA SANTOS HORA (BRA)
Katie MULKAY (CAN)
Marta OJEDA (ESP)
Noémi SZABADOS (HUN)
ARJU (IND)
Naruha MATSUYUKI (JPN)
Albina KAIRGELDINOVA (KAZ)
Zuzanna WOLCZYNSKA (POL)
Zsuzsanna MOLNAR (SVK)
Tindra SJOEBERG (SWE)
Nesrin BAS (TUR)
Romana VOVCHAK (UKR)
Sienna RAMIREZ (USA)

72kg
Brianna FRASER (CAN)
Maria CEBALLOS (COL)
Kendra DACHER (FRA)
Lilly SCHNEIDER (GER)
Reetika HOODA (IND)
Sumire NIIKURA (JPN)
Alexandra ZAITSEVA (KAZ)
Wiktoria CHOLUJ (POL)
Maria NITU (ROU)
Nazar BATIR (TUR)
Iryna ZABLOTSKA (UKR)
Amit ELOR (USA)

76kg
Amelia FRISBEE (CAN)
Tatiana RENTERIA (COL)
Carla LERA (ESP)
PRIYANKA (IND)
Yasuha MATSUYUKI (JPN)
Inkara ZHANATAYEVA (KAZ)
Luz HERNANDEZ (MEX)
Sarnai BAYARBAATAR (MGL)
Marion BYE (NOR)
Daniela TKACHUK (POL)
Hui CHANG (TPE)
Mehtap GULTEKIN (TUR)
Anastasiya ALPYEYEVA (UKR)
Dymond GUILFORD (USA)

Lopez Nunez, Vlasov en tête des classements de lutte gréco-romaine après leurs victoires à Rio

By William May

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY (September 8) – Mijain LOPEZ NUNEZ (CUB) and Roman VLASOV (RUS) closed out the 2016 international wrestling season with repeat triumphs at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and No.1 rankings in the United World Wrestling list of the top Greco-Roman wrestlers.

Lopez claimed his third Olympic Games gold medal at super heavyweight by sneaking past reigning world champion Riza KAYAALP (TUR) in the 130kg final at Rio 2016, while world champion Vlasov followed up a win in London four years ago with another gold medal performance in Rio de Janeiro.

Of the four remaining Greco-Roman champions crowned at Carioca Arena, only Ismael BORRERO MOLINA (CUB) at 59kg was able to match Vlasov by moving seamlessly from world champion to the Olympic Games gold medal – his first.

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Like Lopez, two-time world champion Artur ALEKSANYAN (ARM), who slipped to No.2 in the rankings at 98kg after a loss at the European championships in March, reclaimed the top spot with a 3-0 victory over Yasmany LUGO CABRERA (CUB).

Meanwhile, Davit CHAKVETADZE (RUS) went from third to No.1 at 85kg with a win over world champ Zhan BELENYUK (UKR) and 2014 world champion Davor STEFANEK (SRB) carved his way through a crowded field at 66kg to go from No.6 in the rankings to No.1.

Rasul CHUNAYEV (AZE), world champion at the non-Olympic category of 71kg, dropped to 66kg and won a bronze medal there, leaving the top spot at light welterweight open for Balint KORPASI (HUN).

Among the biggest movers in the rankings, Shinobu OTA (JPN) vaulted from No.12 to No.2 after winning the silver medal at 59kg, while teammate Tomohiro INOUE (JPN) went from unranked to fifth place and No.6 in the rankings at 66kg.

Former world champion Elis GURI (BUL) also went from unranked to No.8 after a seventh place finish in the Rio 2016 results at 98kg.

The top six finishers at the Olympic Games and world championships at each category are initially accorded the top six positions in the rankings, while the places No.7 to No.20 are determined by a combination of factors, including the results from the championships as well as from competition over the previous 12 months.

Wrestlers in the rankings are listed by name, country code, most notable or most recent result over the last 12 months, and their position in the previous rankings.

(NOTE: The United World Wrestling rankings will take a break until the world championships for non-Olympic weight categories are held in Budapest, December 10-11.)

59kg – Shinobu OTA (JPN) launched his bid for a Rio 2016 medal with his second win over defending Olympic Games champion Hamid SORYAN (IRI) in five months and pinned two-time Olympic silver medalist Rovshan BAYRAMOV (AZE) in the semifinals to leap 10 places to No.2 in the rankings.

1. Ismael BORRERO MOLINA (CUB) – Rio OG No.1 (1)
2. Shinobu OTA (JPN) – Rio OG No.2 (12)
3. Stig Andre BERGE (NOR) – Rio OG No.3 (8)
4. Elmurat TASMURADOV (UZB) – Rio OG No.3 (9)
5. Arsen ERALIEV (KGZ) – Rio OG No.5 (7)
6. Rovshan BAYRAMOV (AZE) – Rio OG No.5 (2)
7. Almat KEBISPAYEV (KAZ) – GGP Final No.1 (3)
8. WANG Lumin (CHN) – Hungarian GP No.3 (not ranked)
9. Mingiyan SEMENOV (RUS) – Europe No.1 (4)
10. YUN Won-Chol (PRK) – Asia No.5 (5)
11. Kenichiro FUMITA (JPN) – Pytlasinski Cup No.1 (11)
12. Haitham Mahmoud FAHMY (EGY) – Pytlasinski Cup No.2 (10)
13. Soslan DAUROV (BLR) – Pytlasinski Cup No.3 (6)
14. Hamid SORYAN (IRI) – Istanbul OG Qualifier No.1 (14)
15. Jesse THIELKE (USA) – Istanbul OG Qualifier No.2 (19)
16. Stepan MARYANYAN (RUS) – Spanish GP No.1 (15)
17. Kristijan FRIS (SRB) – Zagreb GP No.3 (18)
18. LEE Jung-Baek KOR) – German GP No.2 (nr)
19. Ibragim LABAZANOV (RUS) – Ivan Poddubny No.1 (17)
20. Andres MONTANO (ECU) – Spanish GP No.2 (16)

66kg – World champion at 71kg Rasul CHUNAYEV (AZE) defeated Beijing 2008 gold medalist Islambek ALBIEV (RUS), 3-2, in the round of 16 to join the lightweight rankings at No.3 after taking a bronze medal ahead of 2013 world champion RYU Han-Soo (KOR).

1. Davor STEFANEK (SRB) – Rio OG No.1 (6)
2. Migran ARUTUNYAN (ARM) – Rio OG No.2 (8)
3. Rasul CHUNAYEV (AZE) – Rio OG No.3 (1@71)
4. Shmagi BOLKVADZE (GEO) – Rio OG No.3 (10)
5. RYU Han-Soo (KOR) – Rio OG No.5 (3)
6. Tomohiro INOUE (JPN) – Rio OG No.5 (nr)
7. Frank STAEBLER (GER) – German GP No.1 (1)
8. Islambek ALBIEV (RUS) - Europe No.1 (9)
9. Artem SURKOV (RUS) – German GP No.2 (3)
10. Tamas LORINCZ (HUN) – Spanish GP No.1 (2)
11. Omid NOROOZI (IRI) – Asian OG Qualifier No.2 (18)
12. Mehdi ZEIDVAND (IRI) – Pytlasinski Cup No.1 (7)
13. Miguel MARTINEZ PALACIOS (CUB) – Spanish GP No.1 (9)
14. Wuileixis RIVAS ESPINOZA (VEN) – Pan Am OG Qualifier No.1 (13)
15. Tarek Aziz BENAISSA (ALG) – All-African Games No.1 (11)
16. Edgaras VENCKAITIS (LTU) – Ulaanbaatar OG Qualifier No.3 (16)
17. Hasan ALIYEV (AZE) – Europe No.3 (12)
18. Ionut PANAIT (ROU) – Ulaanbaatar OG Qualifier No.1 (14)
19. David KARECINSKI (POL) – Pytlasinski No.2 (15)
20. Mateusz BERNATEK (POL) – European U23 No.1 (17)

71kg – With Rasul CHUNAYEV (AZE) ranked at 66kg after winning a bronze medal at Rio 2016, Hungarian Grand Prix winner Balint KORPASI (HUN) takes over at No.1 and Ukraine International champion Azim GARMSIRI (IRI) rejoins the rankings at No.20.

1. Balint KORPASI (HUN) – Hungarian GP No.1 (2)
2. Afshin BYABANGARD (IRI) – Asia No.1 (3)
3. Adam KURAK (RUS) – German GP No.3 (4)
4.  Varsham BORANYAN (ARM) – Europe No.1 (5)
5. Aleksandar MAKSIMOVIC (SRB) – Europe No.2 (6)
6. Armen VARDANYAN (UKR) – Trophee Milone No.2 (7)
7. Tero VAELIMAEKI (FIN) – Ulaanbaatar OG Qualifier No.2 (8)
8. ZHANG Ridong (CHN) – Pytlasinski Cup No.3 (9)
9. Ruslan TSAREV (KGZ) – Istanbul OG Qualifier No.2 (10)
10. Zackarias TALLROTH (SWE) – World No.3 (11)
11. Mathias MAASCH (GER) – Paris GP No.1 (12)
12. Danijel JANECIC (CRO) – LIG Int’l No.3 (13)
13. Tomi HINOVEANU (ROU) – Corneanu Int’l No.2 (14)
14. Abuyazid MANTSIGOV (RUS) – German GP No.3 (15)
15. Timur BERDIEV (BLR) – World No.5 (16)
16. Yunus OZEL (TUR) – Europe No.5 (17)
17. Darkhan BAYAKMETOV (KAZ) – Asia No.3 (18)
18. Maximilian SCHWABE (GER) – German GP No.1 (19)
19. Yunus Emre BASAR (TUR) – Vehbi Emre No.1 (20)
20. Azim GARMSIRI (IRI) – Ukraine Int’l No.1 (nr)

75kg – Four current and former world champions reached the medal finals at Rio 2016 with Roman VLASOV (RUS) nailing down his second Olympic Games gold medal with a 5-1 victory over four-time world silver medalist Mark MADSEN (DEN).

1. Roman VLASOV (RUS) – Rio OG No.1 (1)
2. Mark MADSEN (DEN) – Rio OG No.2 (3)
3. KIM Hyeon-Woo (KOR) – Rio OG No.3 (4)
4. Saeid Mourad ABDVALI (IRI) – Rio OG No.3 (10)
5. Peter BACSI (HUN) – Rio OG No.5 (8)
6. Bozo STARCEVIC (CRO) – Rio OG No.5 (17)
7. Viktor NEMES (SRB) – Europe No.2 (7)
8. Elvin MURSALIYEV (AZE) – Rio OG No.7 (13)
9. Doszhan KARTIKOV (KAZ) – Asia No.1 (2)
10. Zurabi DATUNASHVILI (GEO) – Europe No.1 (6)
11. YANG Bin (CHN) – Pytlasinski No.3 (11)
12. Arsen JULFALAKYAN (ARM) – Vehbi Emre No.1 (9)
13. Andrew BISEK (USA) – Rio OG No.12 (5)
14. Chingiz LABAZANOV (RUS) – German GP No.2 (12)
15. Gela BOLKVADZE (GEO) – Spanish GP No.1 (14)
16. Karapet CHALYAN (ARM) – Europe No.3 (15)
17. Zied AIT OUAGRAM (MAR) – Pytlasinski Cup No.5 (18)
18. Mahmoud SEBIE (EGY) – Africa No.1 (20)
19. Yurisandi HERNANDEZ RIOS (CUB) – Spanish GP No.2 (nr)
20. Dilshod TURDIEV (UZB) – Asia No.2 (nr) 

80kg – Reigning world champion at this non-Olympic category Selcuk CEBI (TUR) and Daniel ALEKSANDROV (BUL) both lost at 75kg in the round of 16 in Rio. With no competition at 80kg in August, the rankings are unchanged for the month.

1. Selcuk CEBI (TUR) – German GP No.1 (1)
2. Lasha GOBADZE (GEO) – European U23 No.1 (2)
3. Evgeni SALEEV (RUS) – Ivan Poddubny No.1 (3)
4. Rafik HUSEYNOV (AZE) – German GP No.1, 75kg (4)
5. Ramin TAHERISARTANG (IRI) – Pytlasinski Cup No.1 (5)
6. Viktor SASUNOVSKI (BLR) – World No.2 (6)
7. Edgar BABAYAN (POL) – Europe No.2 (7)
8. Eduard SARGSYAN (ARM) – German GP No.3 (8)
9. Pavel POMINCHUK (BLR) – Pytlasinski Cup No.2 (9)
10. Daniel ALEKSANDROV (BUL) – Europe No.3 (10)
11. AISHAN Aishan (CHN) – Asia No.2 (11)
12. Aslan ATEM (TUR) – Europe No.3 (12)
13. Laszlo SZABO (HUN) – Spanish GP No.3 (13)
14. Ramazan ABACHARAEV (RUS) – Ivan Poddubny No.1 (14)
15. Yaroslav FILCHAKOV (UKR) – World Cup No.1 (15)
16. Burhan AKBUDAK (TUR) – European U23 No.2 (16)
17. Patrick MARTINEZ (USA) – Spanish GP No.3 (17)
18. Raibek BISULTANOV (DEN) – Hungarian GP No.2 (18)
19. Ashkat DILMUKHAMEDOV (KAZ) – Asia No.3 (19)
20. Yousef GHADERIAN (IRI) – World No.3 (20)

85kg – Denis KUDLA (GER) won three of four bouts on criteria, including victories over world bronze medal winners Habibollah AKHLAGHI (IRI), 1-1, and Viktor LORINCZ (HUN), 3-3, in repechage for a Rio 2016 bronze medal.

1. David CHAKVETADZE (RUS) – Rio OG No.1 (3)
2. Zhan BELENYUK (UKR) – Rio OG No.2 (1)
3. Denis KUDLA (GER) – Rio OG No.3 (6)
4. Javid HAMZATOV (BLR) – Rio OG No.3 (13)
5. Viktor LORINCZ (HUN) – Rio OG No.5 (2)
6. Nikolai BAYRAKOV (BUL) – Rio OG No.5 (14)
7. Habibollah AKHLAGHI (IRI) – Rio OG No.7 (9)
8. Saman Ahmed TAHMASEBI (AZE) – 2015 World No.3 (5)
9. Robert KOBLIASHVILI (GEO) – Europe No.2 (8)
10. Rustam ASSAKALOV (UZB) – Pytlasinski Cup No.5 (4)
11. Alexej MISHIN (RUS) – European OG Qualifier No.1 (7)
12. Islam ABBASOV (AZE) – World Cup No.1 (10)
13. Tadeusz MICHALIK (POL) – Pytlasinski Cup No.3 (11)
14. Amer HRUSTANOVIC (AUT) – Schultz Memorial No.1 (nr)
15. Rami HIETANIEMI (FIN) – Haavisto Cup No.7 (nr)
16. Maksim MANUKYAN (ARM) – Trophee Milone No.2 (16)
17. Damian JANIKOWSKI (POL) – Pytlasinski Cup No.2 (12)
18. Ramsin AZIZSIR (GER) – German GP No.2 (17)
19. Metehan BASAR (TUR) – German GP No.3 (19)
20. Zakarias BERG (SWE) – European U23 No.3 (19)

98kg – Former world champion Elis GURI (BUL), who slipped out of the rankings after finishing 17th at the European championships and 16th at the Pytlasinski Cup, notched a pair of wins in the early rounds to claim seventh place for a second straight Olympic Games and No.8 in the rankings.

1. Artur ALEKSANYAN (ARM) – Rio OG No.1 (2)
2. Yasmany LUGO CABRERA (CUB) – Rio OG No.2 (8)
3. Ghasem REZAEI (IRI) – Rio OG No.3 (3)
4. Cenk ILDEM (TUR) – Rio OG No.3 (6)
5. Fredrik SCHOEN (SWE) – Rio OG No.5 (17)
6. Alin ALEXUC-CIURARIU (ROU) – Rio OG No.5 (19)
7. Nikita MELNIKOV (RUS) - Europe No.1 (1)
8. Elis GURI (BUL) – Rio OG No.7 (nr)
9. Islam MAGOMEDOV (RUS) – Rio OG No.8 (4)
10. Mahdi ALIYARI FEYZABADI (IRI) – Pytlasinski Cup No.1 (7)
11. Balasz KISS (HUN) – Pytlasinski Cup No.3 (15)
12. Aleksander HRABOVIK (BLR) – Europe No.3 (5)
13. Dimitri TIMCHENKO (UKR) – Ukraine Int’l No.1 (9)
14. Daigoro TIMONCINI (ITA) – Hungarian GP No.2 (10)
15. Timofej DZEYNICHENKO (BLR) – Pytlasinski Cup No.3 (14)
16. Muhammad Etka SEVER (GER) – European U23 No.1 (12)
17. Musa EVLOEV (RUS) – German GP No.1 (13)
18. XIAO Di (CHN) – Hungarian GP No.1 (11)
19. Luillys PEREZ MORA (VEN) – Spanish GP No.3 (20)
20. Ardo ARUSAAR (EST) – European OG Qualifier No.1 (16)

130kg – Sabah SHARIATI (AZE), fifth-place at the Las Vegas world meet, recorded a technical fall and fall in repechage to secure his first world level medal, leaping from No.15 to fourth in the rankings.

1. Mijain LOPEZ NUNEZ (CUB) – Rio OG No.1 (2)
2. Riza KAYAALP (TUR) – Rio OG No.2 (1)
3. Sergey SEMENOV (RUS) – Rio OG No.3 (6)
4. Sabah SHARIATI (AZE) – Rio OG No.3 (15)
5. Eduard POPP (GER) – Rio OG No.5 (4)
6. Heiki NABI (EST) – Rio OG No.5 (12)
7. Iakobi KAJAIA (GEO) – European U23 No.1 (11)
8. Johan Magnus EUREN (SWE) – Europe No.3 (5)
9. Aleksander CHERNETSKI (UKR) – Europe No.2 (3)
10. Bashir BABAJANZADEH (IRI) – Pytlasinski Cup No.3 (12)
11. Iosif CHUGOSHVILI (BLR) – Europe No.3 (8)
12. MENG Qiang (CHN) – Hungarian GP No.1 (10)
13. Murat RAMONOV (KGZ) – Asia No.2 (16)
14. Vitali SHCHUR (RUS) – German GP No.2 (10)
15. Nurmakhan TINALIEV (KAZ) – GGP Final No.2 (9)
16. Amir GHASEMI MONJAZI (IRI) – Asia No.1 (19)
17. Muminjon ABDULLAEV (UZB) – Ulaanbaatar OG Qualifier No.3 (18)
18. Mantas KNYSTAUTAS (LTU) – German GP No.3 (17)
19. Eduard SOGHOMONYAN (BRA) – Pan America No.2 (20)
20. Miloslav METODIEV (BUL) – Nikola Petrov No.2 (nr)